How do folks maintain mutiple active phones?

Hi all, as I read through the forums I see many references to people having 2,3, or even more phones that they use (not referring to the old one in a box or having a work provided and personal phone). I'm just curious how one does that. Are you paying for a 2nd line and forwarding the number, moving a SIM card back and forth, or something else? I'm a phone geek but I can't see ponying up for more than one data plan. Just curious, any responses appreciated!

so you can share your minutes and data for a small Fee, with Rogers I could add a second line, for $25 then an additional $10 to share my data

so for $35 a month I could have 2 devices, (assuming I had a plan that allowed sharing, unlimited voice never allows sharing unfortunately )

Or you Run plans on multiple carriers since you get to write off the costs on your taxes (yaa!!) so your primary device can be you $100 per month device, with a secondary and tertiary device being on other accounts in the $40/ month range still keeping everything under $200 per month

My personal berry is paid for my me, unlimited everything, no limit, tether as I please.

My work berry (BES 8520) is what I have to use for work. I leave my personal one in my office at work, and check it now and again, once I leave work, the other berry goes off (unless I am on call)

A few of my counterparts forward their personal lines to their work ones, but if I need to be reached in an emergency, they can call my work line. Hopefully I can drop the dual berries once the 9930 comes out and hopefully use one device with Blackberry Balance.

I'll being doing two phones here soon. I plan on getting a 9900 on Craigslist and then having the next gen iPhone. I'll go to AT&T(hopefully they get the 9900) and switch sim cards when I wanna use a different phone.

I'll being doing two phones here soon. I plan on getting a 9900 on Craigslist and then having the next gen iPhone. I'll go to AT&T(hopefully they get the 9900) and switch sim cards when I wanna use a different phone.

It's simple if you get a phone somewhere not on contract.

It might not be that simple as the RIM phone will require a BIS plan, and the iPhone will probably get a plan of it's own as a promotional plan to attract users from Verizon.

I just swap my sim between devices & use the built in email setup app to move my servicebooks over. For apps I use bbmcp & backup/restore between devices. The only real issue I run into is bbm ota backup/restore never working properly. Sometime it takes hours to restore my bbm list to the new device, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Luckily I only use bbm with one contact so I can manually re-enter her pin.

I have a bunch of different blackberry devices, I use different ones on different days/occasions/venues etc. I have 1 sim card that I switch between devices. All my contacts/calendar sync to google so they're the same on all devices. I just like to use different phones is all. I also use android, windows mobile, palm pre & and old 1st gen iphone. I'm not hiding anything I promise. No wife here thank god.

Originally Posted by kbz1960

I can see a work phone and a personal but unless you're hiding something isn't it hard to have 2 different numbers and contacts for personal or do you all have the same contacts for both numbers?

No it wasn't for you, for anyone that has 2 personal numbers and 2 personal phones. I can see changing phones with a sim if the sim keeps your number, I don't know how that works as I've only ever had CDMA which doesn't use a sim.

No it wasn't for you, for anyone that has 2 personal numbers and 2 personal phones. I can see changing phones with a sim if the sim keeps your number, I don't know how that works as I've only ever had CDMA which doesn't use a sim.

Well currently I have my crackberry Torch with AT&T and for my work cell I have the Evo Touch via Sprint. Where I work only allows Sprint signal so I have to carry 2 phones.

I also used to carry 2 personal Blackberries. I bought it as an add a line deal for my consulting business (would let whoever was helping me use it) but when I got out of consulting, I had the phone and was locked in for 2 years so I just kept both on me...One ## I gave out to friends and one just family...

Thanks all for the info! I suppose on AT&T a 2nd line is onlly $9.99 + $15 for the cheapest data plan (plus taxes & fees of course), but if ypu splurge for an unlocked phone and switch Sim cards you can do it w/o the 2nd line.

well on rogers you can get a sim activated on a DATA ONLY plan. i was running a bb bold with that $15/month unlimited social networking and IM plan along side my $60/month voice/data package for my iphone.

i got sick of carrying around 2 phones everywhere though, so i ended up ditching the iphone and staying with the berry.

I have a torch on Orange (uk) (40)main number, and I aso have my old Bold9000 on Three (uk)(15) which I use for Skype and call all my overseas mates, it also doubles up as a promotional BBM mailer which I use to tell peeps about events I'm doing

I use 2 BB Bold 9650s, one with camera (personal) and one without (work-due to restrictions). I forward my personal number to my work phone each morning and everything seems to work OK, except for SMS. I'm not sure my SMS messages get forwarded. No problem if I initiate the correspondence, and BBM works fine since I added my other "identity" as a BBM contact. Pain in the neck, but really can't be w/o my BB during the day....

I guess I was asking about the wife/girlfriend thing cause I have a female friend that is seeing a married man (I don't agree with her but it's her life) and he has his normal phone and his (her) phone..... I tried to tell her that if he has a (her) phone that it's probably a multiple gf phone but she doesn't think so, naive perhaps?

I also have an issued work phone that is just a dumb phone. I refuse to carry 2 phones around with me also so I just forwarded the number to my personal phone as I have USCellular and every incoming is free.

I only maintain one active phone at the moment and don't intend using more than one, maybe an extra for Wi-Fi only use, which I barely use at all. I just can't afford to spend extra $$ because to me, bills shouldn't overtake most of the cash or what you earn. It mostly goes towards food for me, bills & rent take 75% of it. So no, I only maintain one active phone.